“It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.” IfsAgeMediaLateSpendingGoldenBuyingJustify80sGolden Age Author:Bill Mumy
“Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.” TwoPoliticalWhiteMediaTenPaperSellingJournalismBuyingPoundsCentsWhite PaperTwo Cents Author:Charles A. Dana
“[W]omen's magazines know that more than two thirds of women pray each day so they tend to promote "spirituality" which is warm, soft, fuzzy, and "me-centered, " rather than religion, which is definitely not. Shot with a soft-focus lens, spirituality in women's media has morphed into another method of stress reduction. Lulling and inoffensive, spirituality is more about taking long walks and buying $65 Jo Malone scented candles than making ethical decisions or moral judgments. It's another way to calm ourselves, refresh ourselves, or applaud ourselves.” KnowsWayLongTwoSpiritualityDecisionWalksMoralFocusMediaPrayingJudgmentShotsThirdsStressMethodCalmWarmMagazinesEach DayBuyingEthicalCandleLensesAnother WayReductionFuzzyOmenLong WalksMoral JudgmentScented CandlesStress Reduction Author:Myrna Blyth
“There have been times in my adolescence where I gave up. I was like, 'I'm just never going to be pretty. I'm never going to be like one of those people on the front of magazines.' It always seemed really strange to me that the projection of how people are in advertisements looked nothing like the people who were actually buying them. You know what I mean? I never understood that mismatch, and now I really start to see that the people you see in the media are a lot more like people actually are.” PeopleKnowsMeanHas BeensMediaFrontsStrangeUnderstoodMagazinesBuyingAdolescenceProjectionGave UpAdvertisementsMismatch Author:Ronda Rousey
“Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read.” PersonsDemocracyIssuesMediaVoteElectionCorporateDiscussionBuyingVotersBillionaireSuppressionOligarchyVoter Suppression Author:Bernie Sanders